Joseph r



J. R'. SMITH.

Hair-Pin.Y

No. 225,43o. Patened Mar. 9,1380. 1

4UNITED STATES gPATENT OFFICE;

i BUTTON COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

HAIR-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,430, dated March 9, 1880. Application led October 23, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JosEPH R. SMITH, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Hair-Pins;l and I do hereby de clare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the let ters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specication,- and represent, ill- Figure l, view ofthe pin complete; Fig. vertical central section enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvementin that class of two or more pronged hair-pins which are provided with a head g and the invention consists in the peculiar construction of the head, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

The hair-pin proper is made from wire bent to form two prongs, et a., in substantially the usual manner. Over these prongs there is passed a cup-shaped or hemispherical disk, b, perforated, as at c, so that the two prongs of the pin may pass therethrough. Between the upper bend, d,.of the pin and the bottom of the disk b a block, e, of any suitable material, is introduced to hold the bend above the surface of the disk 5 then over the bend of the pin there is placed an inverted cup, f, (denoted in solid black, Fig. 2,) which closes down over the upper part of the lower disk, b, the two parts together forming substantially a spherical shape. The upper part or cap j' bears upon the bend ot' the pin, so as to press it hard down upon the iilling-block c, and thus hold the pin firmly to the head. This completes the construction.

The cap may be ornamented in any desirable `manner or shape.

I do not broadly claim a hair-pin in which the two prongs of the ipin are passed through perforations in the lower or bottom part of the head, as such, I am aware, is not new.

I claim- The herein-described hair-pin, consisting of the bent pin, lower disk, b, through which the prongs of the pin pass, and the filling-block e, between the bend of the pin and the lower disk, combined with a cap, f, closed onto the lower disk and onto the bend of the pin, substantially as described.

JOSEPH l. SMITH.

Witnesses:

J os. C. EARLE, JOHN E. EARLE. 

